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    East Falkland (Spanish: Isla Soledad) is the largest island of the Falklands in the South Atlantic, having an area of 6,605 km2 (2,550 square miles) or...
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    (12,000 km2), comprises East Falkland, West Falkland, and 776 smaller islands. As a British overseas territory, the Falklands have internal self-governance...
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  • Sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) is disputed by Argentina and the United Kingdom. The British claim to sovereignty dates...
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    as Port Stanley) is the capital city of the Falkland Islands. It is located on the island of East Falkland, on a north-facing slope in one of the wettest...
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    American mainland until around 400 years ago. The Falkland Islands wolf existed on both West and East Falkland, but Charles Darwin was uncertain if they were...
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  • Look up Falkland or Falklands in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Falkland may refer to: Falkland, British Columbia, a community in Canada Falkland, Nova...
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    Falkland (Spanish: Isla Gran Malvina) is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland...
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    The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent...
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    settlements on the Falkland Islands. List of settlements by name, population, and island it is located on Ajax Bay (East Falkland) Beaver Settlement (on...
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    The Falkland Sound (Spanish: Estrecho de San Carlos) is a sea strait in the Falkland Islands. Running southwest-northeast, it separates West and East Falkland...
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  • sealing, with factories being built on East Falkland and South Georgia Island, but these industries ended. By the Falklands War of 1982 sheep farming was the...
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    The Falklands comprise two main islands, West Falkland and East Falkland, and about 776 small islands. The geological history of the Falkland Islands...
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  • 2012, the Falkland Islands Government classified the 536 miles (862 km) road network - East Falkland 304 miles (489 km) and West Falkland 232 miles (373 km)...
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    The Falkland Islands are a British overseas territory and, as such, rely on the United Kingdom for the guarantee of their security. The other UK territories...
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    settlements in 1774. Spain, which had a garrison at Puerto Soledad on East Falklands, administered the garrison from Montevideo until 1811 when it was compelled...
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    miles (53 km) southwest of Stanley, the capital of the Falklands, on the island of East Falkland. The world's longest corridor, 2,600 feet (800 m) long...
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    Port Louis is a settlement on northeastern East Falkland. It was established by Louis de Bougainville on 5 April 1764 as the first French settlement on...
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    The climate of the Falkland Islands is cool and temperate, regulated by the large oceans which surround it. The Falkland Islands are a British Overseas...
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    East Falkland was a constituency of the Legislative Council of the Falkland Islands which was in existence from the first elections in the Falklands in...
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    Darwin is a settlement in Lafonia on East Falkland, Falkland Islands, lying on Choiseul Sound, on the east side of the island's central isthmus, 2.5 miles...
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    Goose Green is a hamlet in Lafonia on East Falkland in the Falkland Islands. It lies on Choiseul Sound, on the east side of the island's central isthmus...
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    Port Stanley Airport (category East Falkland)
    also merely known as Stanley Airport, is a small civil airport in the Falkland Islands, located two miles (3 kilometres) from the capital, Stanley. This...
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    Falkland Islanders (also called Kelpers or Falklanders) derive from various origins. Earliest among these are the numerically small but internationally...
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  • The Falkland Islands contain significant oil reserves. Geological surveys of the Falklands began in the late 1970s, when two petroleum services companies...
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    settlement. The majority of the Camp population lives on East Falkland, followed by West Falkland. Outlying islands such as Pebble, Sea Lion, West Point...
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    East Falkland, West Falkland and 776 lesser islands, is a self-governing Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom. The capital, Stanley, is on East Falkland...
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    San Carlos is a settlement in northwestern East Falkland, lying south of Port San Carlos on San Carlos Water. It is sometimes nicknamed "JB" after a former...
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    The wildlife of the Falkland Islands is quite similar to that of Patagonia. The Falkland Islands have no native reptiles or amphibians, and the only native...
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    oil reserves off the coast of the Falklands. It owned the right to extract oil from a number of blocks to the east and the south of the islands. FOGL...
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    Mount Longdon (category Mountains of East Falkland)
    Mount Longdon is a mountain located in the east of East Falkland island forming part of the Falkland Islands Archipelago. It is best known as the site...
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